Rio+20: Earth summit dawns with stormier clouds than in 1992 | Environment | The Guardian

The excuse is that the summit is overshadowed by the deepening global financial crisis. The real reason may be that the days of hope and idealism are over.

Plentiful corn crop seen for Minnesota - TwinCities.com

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday, June 18, that a typical corn plant in Minnesota is now 23 inches tall -- so it's actually above knee-high. That's double the usual height in mid-June, the USDA said, thanks to a warm spring, early planting and plentiful rains.

But the real reason the corn is so high now is that farmers now plant their fields earlier than they did a generation ago, in order to extend the growing season and capture the highest yields.

Brookings Goes Schizophrenic On Clean Energy And Climate, Then Singlehandedly Jumps The Shark, Ironically | ThinkProgress

Strangely, though, that report ignores both “climate change” or “global warming” and while it devotes a full 20 pages to policy recommendations, it devotes not one single sentence to a carbon price. The phrase “carbon price” never appears.

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